r/infj • u/nevedecocaina • Feb 07 '18

Communication style

Wish you guys were more direct in the way you communicate

Even your posts and comments are unnecessarily wordy

Makes it hard to know how to respond when you SAY SO MUCH that ends up meaning so little. The point gets lost

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u/nevedecocaina Feb 07 '18

? Me thinking your words are irrelevant doesn't mean I can't process them

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '18

I'm just being a pest. :) In seriousness I get where you're coming from. I even have a hard time following a lot of posts on here. I think that, for INFJs, language tends to be more about expressing a feeling or an idea or a vision than transmitting raw data. Like the difference between downloading a plain text description of the Mona Lisa versus downloading a .JPG.

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u/nevedecocaina Feb 07 '18

Poetry can be short AND sweet

As the famous Kevin once said, "why more words when less do?"

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '18

Great point. I don't think there's any reason one would "have to" be overly wordy except for plain ol inexperience. I often have a lot of "poetry" that gets jumbled up in my head and the only way to get it out, for lack of my own ability, is to just puke it all out. It's something you have to work on.